COOPERATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES

We at SEP are not going to give up our relationship with rock physics and geostatistics. Over the years several PhD theses have sprung up from collaborations between SEP and SRB. I expect more of such joint efforts to bear fruit in the future. I recently made a long presentation to the Petroleum Engineering faculty on my work and my perception of its relation to theirs. Andre Journel organized a well-attended reciprocal venture. They find they do not have enough information to produce a unique model, so they produce large numbers of models with the desired statistical properties. Perhaps we should do the same. Instead of providing other geoscientists with a volumetric earth image, we might produce a zillion image cubes (each differing by members of the null space in our best estimate of V(x,y,z)). I'm joking of course. They don't want a zillion image cubes. They want us to get a single ``right'' value for the velocity and give them the ``right'' cube. Everything depends on it.